Global Health Governance and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS [Hardcover]

The devastating effects of HIV/AIDS have propelled a multiplicity of activities at global, national and local level. This book is based on in-depth studies of the major global institutions in health, the role of pharmaceutical corporations, the functions of NGOs, and national responses to HIV/AIDS in two key case studies: Brazil and South Africa.List of Figures and Tables Foreword: Governing Independence Preface Notes on the Authors Abbreviations Introduction: Globalization, HIV/AIDS and the Rise of Global Health Governance; W.Hein, S.Bartsch & L.Kohlmorgen Interfaces: A Concept for the Analysis of Global Health Governance; W.Hein, S.Bartsch & L.Kohlmorgen Global Health Governance and WTO/TRIPS: Conflicts Between 'Global Market-Creation' and 'Global Social Rights'; W.Hein From Conflict over Compromise to Cooperation? Big Pharma, the HIV/AIDS Crisis and the Rise of Countervailing Power in the South; J.P.Wogart The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Global Health Governance; S.Bartsch & L.Kohlmorgen International Governmental Organizations and Global Health Governance: The Role of the World Health Organization, World Bank and UNAIDS; L.Kohlmorgen The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; S.Bartsch Consensus Building on Brazilian HIV/AIDS Policy: National and Global Interfaces in Health Governance; G.Calcagnotto The Treatment Controversy: Global Health Governance and South Africa's Fight Against HIV/AIDS; C.von Soest & M.Weinel Conclusion: Global Health Governance and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in a Post-Westphalian World; W.Hein, S.Bartsch, L.Kohlmorgen & J.P.Wogart Bibliography IndexGILBERTO CALCAGNOTTO is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Latin-American Studies, Hamburg, Germany.CHRISTIAN VON SOEST is Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, Hamburg, Germany.MARTIN WEINEL is Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES), Cardiff University, UK, and Lecturer l“6